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Edward Everett Horton
8 Silent Comedies
(1927-1928)

Contents: Find the King (1927), No Publicity (1927), Behind the Counter (1928), Call Again (1928), Dad’s Choice (1928), Horse Shy (1928), Scrambled Weddings (1928) and Vacation Waves (1928).

Undercrank Productions
2021 DVD edition

Edward Everett Horton: 8 Silent Comedies (1927-1928), color-tinted black & white, 169 minutes total, not rated, including Find the King (1927), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, No Publicity (1927), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Behind the Counter (1928), color-tinted black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Call Again (1928), color-tinted black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Dad’s Choice (1928), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Horse Shy (1928), color-tinted black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Scrambled Weddings (1928), color-tinted black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Vacation Waves (1928), color-tinted black & white, 21 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions, no catalog number, UPC 6-47213-97025-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 5.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 320 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 2021.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition has been mastered from 4K high-resolution scans of archival 35mm preservation prints held by the Library of Congress film archive. Most of the source prints are very-good to excellent: a couple show signs of beginning nitrate decomposition, with Call Again about 5 percent affected by severe decomposition. Digital restoration has been performed on the scans to stabilize and clean-up the image.

The film is accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Ben Model on virtual theatre pipe organ and piano.

Supplemental material is the featurette “Edward Everett Horton: Silent Clown?” written and presented by Steve Massa (9 minutes).

This is the only home video edition of these films and it is enthusiastically recommended.

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